Vescent

United States - Golden, CO

• 08/03/2024
• Seed
• $5,000,000

Vescent is a leading manufacturer and supplier of CW lasers, frequency combs, low-noise electronic control systems, and micro-optic assemblies. Vescent offers frequency-stabilized narrow linewidth diode laser systems, precision control electronics, accessory electro-optic modules, and frequency combs for precision spectroscopy, atomic clocks, quantum sensing and computing, and other emerging cold-atom applications. Since 2002, our scientists and engineers have been developing cutting-edge laser solutions. We are adding to our SLICE line of laser control electronics that includes the unique SLICE-QTC four-channel temperature controller for lasers and electro-optics and the SLICE-DHV high-bandwidth PZT controller.

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Scott DavisFounder

United States - Golden, Colorado

Dr. Davis is a physics-trained entrepreneur. He co-founded Vescent Photonics to develop photonic based non-mechanical laser beamsteerers. This technology was sold off to Analog Devices for the automotive market. He has extensive technical experience with liquid crystal (LC) device physics, molecular and laser spectroscopy, precision metrology, and laser stabilization. He has been involved with the development of LC based spatial light modulators, LC-polarimeters, and LC-polarization controllers. While working at NIST in Gaithersburg and JILA in Colorado he acquired skills in lasers stabilization, optical frequency metrology, and molecular spectroscopy. He has over 50 papers, two book chapters, and more than 25 patents pending and/or issued. Prior to starting Vescent Photonics, Dr. Davis worked in industry as an optical engineer, served as an NRC postdoc in the laboratories of David Plusquellic at NIST in Gaithersburg MD, and obtained his Ph.D. from JILA under the tutelage of David Nesbitt.

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